Dr. Al-Arian is the author of this speech: "We assemble today to pay respects to the march of the martyrs and to the river of blood
that gushes forth and does not extinguish, from butchery to butchery, and from martyrdom to martyrdom, from Jihad to Jihad."

According to the July 16 Newsweek, during a campaign speech in Tampa, last year, candidate Bush singled his son, Abdullah, out in the
crowd, something done for specially selected, pre-screened individuals to which a candidate wants to draw attention. Calling Abdullah,
"Big Dude" one of his trademark nicknames reserved for close advisors and White House press, Bush and wife Laura posed for pictures
with the Arian family, standing right next to Dr. Al-Arian.

Photo taken in Tampa, Florida - Bush Campaign 2000.
Laura and George W. Bush (3rd and 4th from left) with Islamic Jihad frontman Sami Al-Arian (third from right)
and family (son, Abdullah "Big Dude" - Bush's nickname for him - Al-Arian, is on far left).

 The problem is, Dr. Al-Arian is the U.S. frontman for one of the largest terrorist-group coalitions in the world Islamic Jihad which
was declared an international terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department and which openly promotes death to Americans.
Hijackers on Flight 93, which crashed near Pittsburgh, wore red headbands, customary among Islamic Jihad warriors who take their instruction from Iran.

President of the Islamic Committee for Palestine, Al-Arian headed up the primary U.S. support group for Islamic Jihad, according to "Jihad
in America," a 1994 PBS documentary on Arab Muslim terrorists in America, produced and reported by Steven Emerson a courageous
investigative journalist who has worked for the U.S. News & World Report and CNN. "Jihad in America" can be viewed online.
(Dr. Al-Arian and his activities are detailed in the last quarter of the hour-long documentary.)

When "Jihad in America" was first set for broadcast in 1994, Arab- and Muslim-American leaders tried to censor PBS and prevent its broadcast.
Instead of deploring Arab terrorist groups in the U.S., they demanded and were granted 1.5 hours of PBS airtime to justify these groups and people
like Al-Arian. As a result of this documentary and other similar work, Emerson a real-life Indiana Jones exposing U.S.-based Islamic
terrorist groups received constant death threats from Arab terrorist groups, which the Arab-American community (that today professes
a love of America amidst the WTC bombing) refused to condemn.

FBI and INS affidavits accused Al-Arian of, "among other things, 'fraud and misuse of visas' and 'aiding and abetting or assisting certain aliens'
involved in terrorism to enter the United States unlawfully." Islamic Jihad's newspaper, "Islam and Palestine," openly promotes jihad against
the West, and has listed Al-Arian's ICP as one of its main offices, complete with ICP's Tampa address.

ICP conferences have featured Sheik Omar Abdul Rahman, the ringleader of the first WTC bombing in 1993 and now in prison, and
Sheik Abdul Aziz Odeh, the spiritual leader to Islamic Jihad and a named unindicted co-conspirator in the first WTC bombing. Odeh has also
been a guest at Al-Arian's Masjid Al-Qassan Mosque in Tampa, named for a Palestinian terrorist. Al-Arian also heads World Islamic Studies Enterprise, which according to the Wall Street Journal, "brought terrorists into the U.S. and raised funds for Islamic Jihad." One of those terrorists was Al-Arian's good friend Ramadan Abdullah Shallah, for whom he arranged a visa, who also became a USF professor and director
of WISE, and who is now the head of Islamic Jihad, based in Damascus Syria. Disguised as religious charities, ICP and WISE
collaborated with and laundered money for parties involved in the 1993 WTC bombing, including Sheik Rahman. These facts
were confirmed by Emerson in sworn congressional testimony on Feb. 24, 1998, and May 23, 2000.

From 1988-1992, Al-Arian organized a series of conferences featuring "a number of the world's top, terrorist leaders"
and worked with "Hamas leaders in the U.S. and elsewhere, and helped oversee terrorist cells in the Middle East."

Al-Arian's brother in law, Mazen al-Najjar, was jailed for three years for using a University of South Florida Islamic think tank as a front
for terrorism. He was released because secret evidence against him was prohibited and is soon to be deported as an illegal alien, but in a
hearing to release him, Al-Arian "invoked his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination 99 times," according to the Associated Press.

But the Newsweek article doesn't mention any of this. It's more like "Newsweak."
Instead, Newsweek reports that Al-Arian campaigned for Bush "when Bush decried the use of secret evidence during the campaign" secret
evidence that should've been used to deport Al-Arian. And it details the anger of Muslim-Americans, who walked out of the Bush White
House in protest when Abdullah Al-Arian was ejected from a Bush meeting, based on the evidence.

Instead of being embarrassed, Muslim- and Arab-American leaders decried it as profiling, and the Al-Arian family is a cause célèbre for Arab
- and Muslim-American leaders. Dr. Al-Arian has become a "civil rights leader" among them. Incredible. Even more incredible, Bush
apologized to the junior Al-Arian for ejecting him from the White House, inviting him back. He dispatched the deputy director of
the U.S. Secret Service to Congressman Bonior's office to personally apologize to the 20-year-old intern. And, in June, the New York Times reported that Dr. Al-Arian, himself, "was among a group of Muslim leaders admitted to the White House for a political briefing."

"[Bush] has to do something to pay this community back," Osama Siblani, publisher of the Arab-American News, protested to Newsweek.
No, he doesn't. He needs to prove he's really against terrorism ? by ceasing his engagement with Arab-Muslim terrorist frontmen
on American soil, like Al-Arian, and those who support them, as many Muslim Arab-American leaders do.

~ By Debbie Schlussel October 1 2001
©2001WorldNetDaily.com

Terrorists' favorite congressmen - $$$

"Money is like manure," said U.S. industrialist Clint Murchison.
"If you spread it around, it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place, it stinks like hell."

Today, a very malodorous scent emanates from elected federal officials who've received a concentrated
pile of campaign contributions from a Muslim Arab terrorist front-man on U.S. soil.

Dr. Sami Al-Arian, a University of South Florida professor, is Islamic Jihad's front-man in the U.S. His favorite elected official,
Congressman David Bonior, D-Mich., the House Democratic Whip until this month, is now a leading candidate for the Michigan governorship.

According to Federal Election Commission records, and the Center for Responsive Politics' opensecrets.org, which tracks contributions to federal candidates, Al-Arian and his wife, Nahla, donated at least $3,450 dollars to Bonior's campaign in this and the previous election cycle.

They also gave $2,000 to Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, D-Ga., aka Jihad Cindy, in 2000. McKinney wrote a reprehensible letter of
apology to Prince Alwaleed bin Talal for New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani's criticism of the prince's justification for the Sept. 11 attacks. No
wonder McKinney and Henry Hyde, R-Ill., to whom Al-Arian gave $1,000, objected to an Oct. 3rd congressional screening of "Jihad in
America," featuring Al-Arian's "activities." Former Rep. Tom Campbell, R-Calif., got $1,300. Al-Arian and family also hung out with
candidate Bush in campaign 2000 and were at the White House this summer.

Al-Arian associates are tied to Osama bin Laden, including former manager Islamic Committee for Palestine, a terrorist front
-group according to the FBI, of which Al-Arian is president. According to the Tampa Tribune, Hamdi arranged a bin Laden interview in Afghanistan for ABC News in May 1998 and provided a replacement battery for a satellite phone prosecutors say was integral to bin Laden's August 1998 bombing of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania (224 people were killed). Documents in the trial of four
men convicted in May 2001, in those bombings, prove Hamdi's interaction for al-Quaida. (Hamdi gave $250 to Campbell's campaign.)

FBI and INS affidavits document Al-Arian's "fraud and misuse of visas" and "aiding and abetting or assisting certain aliens" involved in
terrorism to unlawfully enter the U.S., including Ramadan Abdullah Shallah, now head of Islamic Jihad a major component of Osama
bin Laden's al-Qaida terrorist network, according to the Wall Street Journal. Al-Arian also "raised funds for Islamic Jihad," and was
cozy with 1993 WTC attack convicts and conspirators.

At a deportation hearing for his brother-in-law Mazen Al-Najjar whom the FBI and INS say is a mid-level terrorist, Al-Arian "invoked his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination 99 times," according to the Associated Press. A 1988 video shows Al-Arian raising money for the
Islamic Committee for Palestine, which the event's master of ceremonies introduces as "the active arm of the Islamic Jihad."

Al-Arian's campaign contributions and political buddies relate directly to the Sept. 11 attacks. He is a "civil rights" leader in America's organized
Muslim Arabs' fight against the use of secret evidence against potential and proven terrorists who try to enter the United States, under the Secret
Evidence Act under the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996. Parties against whom attempts to use secret evidence have been employed, include Al-Arian, himself, whose citizenship application is in limbo, and Al-Najjar, who is scheduled for deportation. In campaigning
to Al-Arian and other Arab Muslims in the U.S., Bush and Bonior promised to do away with use of secret evidence and profiling.

And they have kept their promises. In May 1999, Bonior and Campbell introduced the Secret Evidence Repeal Act. Bush, at his first address
to a joint session of Congress declared the end of secret evidence and profiling and, in February, issued a directive to Attorney General John Ashcroft to "work in cooperation with state and local law enforcement to assess the extent and nature of any such practices."

Because of this, FBI agents missed the opportunity to discover and prevent the attacks. In August, top Justice and FBI officials turned down
Minneapolis FBI agents' requests for a special counterintelligence surveillance warrant to open the computer hard drive of bin Laden associate
Zacarias Moussaoui. An Eagan, Minn. Flight school tipped them off that the French Algerian sought instruction on steering a Boeing 747,
but not taking off or landing. French intelligence alerted the FBI that Moussaoui, in custody since Aug. 17 on immigration violations,
has ties to terrorist groups.

But, under Bush's and Ashcroft's new rules against secret evidence and profiling - competing against Democrats like Bonior for the
Arab Muslim vote - that information was deemed insufficient for a warrant. According to Newsweek and MSNBC, when agents finally cracked
into Moussaoui's hard drive, after the attacks, they found information detailing plans for terrorist attacks. Moussaoui, trained in Afghani camps,
has been linked to hijacking-leader Mohammad Atta's roommate, and is now believed to have been a would-be hijacker on Flight 93 that
crashed near Pittsburgh.

Regarding Bush's and Bonior's prohibition of secret evidence, Al-Arian told the Brown Daily Herald,
"When you get involved in politics, people start listening."

And thanks to them listening to Islamic Jihad's man in America,
the last thing 6,000 victims listened to was the sound of crashing planes and collapsing buildings.

~ By Debbie Schlussel, October 26 2001
Debbie Schlussel is a political commentator and attorney. She is a frequent guest on ABC's "Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher" and Fox News
Channel. Click here to participate in an online discussion group of Debbie's commentary, and here to join the unofficial Debbie Schlussel Fan Club.
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